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Wildwood elementary Grade 3,4,5 and 6 students surround their principal and teacher, Kelly McLennan, in their new classroom at Marie Sharpe Elementary School Tuesday morning. All the staff and students have become a school within a school at Marie Sharpe in Williams Lake since mould was discovered under the gymnasium at Wildwood Elementary April 16. See story on page A5. EYEWEAR
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In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Nepal Daybreak Rotary is launching a shelter box campaign to provide housing. By Tuesday the number of deaths reported were at 5,000 and amount of people left homeless at more than one million.
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“We want to purchase a number of the shelter boxes,” Daybreak Rotarian Ron Malmas said Tuesday. “In 2010 the community of Williams Lake rallied and we were able to purchase 21 family units to send to Haiti.” One box costs $1,300 and provides a family with a large tent, blankets, pillows, a cooking stove, utensils, a water purification sys-
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